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In what became known as the Nullification Crisis , Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, stating that states had the right to nullify any federal laws which they deemed unconstitutional. Jackson attempted to compromise by lowering tariffs, but South Carolina ended up nullifying the tariffs.
Angered, Jackson passed the Compromise Tariff of and Force Bill , which gave him the power to use federal arms against the state if needed. Nicholas Biddle took over the presidency of the National Bank. In an era of rising white man's democracy, an obvious objection to the Bank was that it possessed great power and privilege without being under popular control.
Many thought that the bank assisted the wealthy, including President Andrew Jackson. When the bank came up for recharter, Jackson vetoed it.
Jackson was not content with preventing the Bank from getting a new charter. Basically, Jackson ordered that federal money cease to be deposited in the National Bank and instead be placed in 23 different state banks.
Since Jackson did not regulate the pet banks much, these banks printed a lot of paper money and caused an economic issue. Jackson finally made a requirement that land had to be purchased by hard money through Specie Circular It required that all future purchases of all federal lands be made in specie gold and silver rather than in paper banknotes.
Banknotes lost their value and land sales plummeted. The causes of the Panic of included overprinting money and overvaluing resources. Wages dropped and many people lost their jobs.
Most of the state banks also bankrupted, leading to their bank notes becoming worthless and people using them becoming bankrupt as well. Because of gossip about her moral character, the wives of other cabinet members refused to receive her socially. Jackson became her fervent champion because he found the charges against her as reminiscent of his late wife who had died just prior to his election. Jackson tried to force the cabinet wives to accept Peggy Eaton socially, most of the cabinet resigned.
They did not belong to his official cabinet. Because of them, the appointed cabinet had less influence on policy than under earlier presidents. After the boost of the cotton economy, whites began to look for more land and started to pressure Indians as well as the government to prepare for land to grow crops.
Many of these goals were accomplished, and the Native American tribes often found themselves getting kicked off their lands. Andrew Jackson let the Indian Removal Act to pass in This allowed the federal government to exchange the Indian lands in the East for the lands in the West and pay money for any losses.
It essentially forced many Indians to undergo this deal. Both cases, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia , enabled the Cherokees to be labeled as a sort of ward to America. The Supreme Court decided that this status allowed the Cherokees to stay within their lands. Jackson refused to let the Cherokees stay and forced them to move to a new reservation in the Oklahoma Territory.
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